Personalizing Your Child's School Supplies

Children have distinct personalities, even at a young age. We may not always like or agree with their likes and dislikes, but it is what makes each child unique. When you are shopping for your child's school supplies, take your child with you and allow them to select colors and styles that fit their taste not yours.

Allow the Child's Personality to Shine Through in Their School Supplies

If your little girl's room is all done up in "Princess Pink" it is a sure bet that she will want a princess backpack, along with pink notebooks and pencils. If you have more than one little girl it will be easy to distinguish the school supplies apart because each has selected things that match their personality.

You may try to steer the child towards less expensive backpacks or supplies if finances are tight. A plain green "cheapo" backpack will probably bring on screams of dislike! If money is an issue when allowing your child to select school supplies, tell the child they can only choose items that are a certain price.

The worst thing you can do is to do the school supply shopping by yourself. This will certainly bring on looks of scorn when you show the child the bargains you found. Each and every item, right down to pencils, should be of the child's choosing. Let them express their personality through their purchases.

Help Small Children to Personalize School Supplies

It may seem unreasonable to purchase a new notebook or pencil box just to have your child color on it, or splash a bunch of stickers on it. This again is allowing the child to personalize their school supplies in a way that displays their own likes and dislikes.

When the child places stickers of their favorite cartoon character or their favorite flowers and rainbows, they are personalizing their school supplies. They are making a unique statement by designing their own things.

A small child will be much more excited about the first day of school if they go armed with supplies they have decorated their self. Help the child select stickers of their choice and allow them to express their own individuality by decorating their pencil boxes, notebooks and folders. You can even have an enjoyable time helping your child place the stickers on.

The Horrors of Teenage School Supplies!

You are probably not a big fan of your teenagers clothing choices. Allow them to express their personality within reason and school guidelines. My teenage grandsons where some things that I just cringe over, but I can also remember being a teenager myself.

Grant your teenage children a little creativity and personality when you take them to shop for school supplies. If their favorite color of the day is black, do not try to force them into brightly colored notebooks. If they want to buy a black magic marker and draw flames and such on their new school supplies, it's okay.

Try to find them some shiny metallic stickers of their favorite band or instruments, or whatever they seem to be "into" at the moment, to place on the notebook covers. It is a sure bet the notebooks will get marked up anyway, so this is your chance to monitor what is going to be on them.

Allowing your child to express their personal taste in their school supplies could mean the difference between them willingly taking them to school or "mysteriously" losing them. Remember that your child's personal taste is probably different from yours, just like your taste was different from your parents.